Codfish
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The family of codfish (Percichthyidae) consists of about 25 species in ten genera. They live in Australia , Chile and Argentina ( Percichthys ) in fresh water, rarely in brackish water .
features
The animals have a typical perch shape with dorsal fins that have grown together and that can be separated by an incision. Their scales are comb scales , with simple needle-like spines, at the rear end or secondary round scales . The sideline is complete.
- Fins formula : Dorsal VII-XII (I-III in Gadopsis bispinosus ) / 8-38, Anale III / 3-20 (16-20 in Gadopsis )
- Vertebra 25-36 (40-50 in Gadopsis )
Codfish grow to be 6 centimeters to 1.8 meters long. Some species are threatened with extinction.
Genera and species
- Genus Bostockia Castelnau, 1873
- Bostockia porosa (Castelnau, 1873)
- Genus Gadopsis
- Gadopsis bispinosus (Sanger, 1984)
- Gadopsis marmoratus (Richardson, 1848)
- Genus Guyu Pusey & Kennard, 2001
- Guyu wujalwujalensis (Pusey & Kennard, 2001)
- Genus Maccullochella Whitley, 1929
- Maccullochella ikei (Rowland, 1986)
- Maccullochella macquariensis (Cuvier, 1829)
- Maccullochella mariensis Rowland, 1993
- Maccullochella peelii (Mitchell, 1838)
- Genus Macquaria Cuvier, 1830
- Macquaria ambigua (Richardson, 1845)
- Macquaria australasica (Cuvier, 1830)
- Genus Nannatherina Regan, 1906
- Nannatherina balsoni (Regan, 1906)
- Genus Nannoperca Günther, 1861
- Nannoperca australis (Günther, 1861)
- Nannoperca obscura (Klunzinger, 1872)
- Nannoperca oxleyana (Whitley, 1940)
- Nannoperca pygmaea Morgan, Beatty & Adams, 2013
- Nannoperca variagata (Kuiter & Allen, 1986)
- Nannoperca vittata (Castelnau, 1873)
- Genus Percalates Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887
- Percalates colonorum (Günther, 1863)
- Percalates novemaculeata (Steindachner, 1866)
- Genus Percichthys Girard, 1855
- Percichthys chilensis (Girard, 1855)
- Percichthys colhuapiensis (MacDonagh, 1955)
- Percichthys laevis (Jenyns, 1840)
- Percichthys melanops (Girard, 1855)
- Percichthys trucha (Valenciennes, 1833)
- Genus perch ( Percilia ) Girard, 1855
- Percilia gillissi Girard, 1855
- Percilia irwini Eigenmann, 1928
The Asian genera Coreoperca and Siniperca , which used to belong to the cod perch , now form a separate family, the Sinipercidae . Since the cod perch, including the genus Percalates, are not monophyletic , it was proposed that they should be separated into a new family, "Percalatidae".
Fossil record
With Percichthys antiquus and Santosius antiquus from the Miocene of Taubaté (Brazil) and a representative of the genus Macquaria from the Eocene of Queensland the Percichthyidae are fossil represented.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Betancur-R, R., E. Wiley, N. Bailly, M. Miya, G. Lecointre, and G. Ortí. 2014. Phylogenetic Classification of Bony Fishes --Version 3 ( archive link ( memento of the original from August 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ).
- ^ Karl Albert Frickhinger: Fossil Atlas Fish , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1999, ISBN 3-88244-018-X
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World . John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
Web links
- Codfish on Fishbase.org (English)